HUXLEY ALDOUS
THE NEW WONDERFUL WORLD REVISED
Translated from the English by Jerzy Horzelski
Paris 1960, Instytut Literacki, pp. 121, format: 13.5x21.5 cm
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First Polish edition!
"An addition to the novel "A New Wonderful World" written by Huxley less than thirty years later.
How many of his prophecies, in which he presented a satirical vision of the distant future, came true in such a short time?
When his novel "A New Wonderful World" was published in 1932, the shocking analysis of technocratic dictatorship contained in it was considered a distant vision.
Years later, the writer considers how societies, technology and forms of government have changed since his famous dystopia was published.
He writes about social phenomena that he believes could lead to the systemic evolution of modern societies toward dictatorship: overpopulation, excessive organization of social life, changes in propaganda associated with the development of behaviorism, new techniques of brainwashing and persuasion.
He stresses that a new type of dictatorship and tyranny is even more to be feared than before.
A thought-provoking and frightening book." [Muse SA, 2018]
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